Technical Trainer – Manufacturing & Composites

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Texas

On-site

USD 90,000 - 125,000

Full time

23 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

3-month sabbatical

Health, dental, vision insurance

Stock bonuses

4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching

Relocation benefits

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is seeking a Technical Trainer for Manufacturing & Composties to build and deliver hands-on training from onboarding through career development.

You will partner with technicians, engineers, and QA to translate processes into scalable curricula, track effectiveness, and drive rapid, reliable onboarding across manufacturing floors. The role emphasizes classroom and on-the-floor training, strong communication, and instructional design, with a mission to advance Firefly’s

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, Aerospace, or related engineering discipline or equivalent hands-on manufacturing engineering experience.
3+ years of experience in a manufacturing, aerospace, or production engineering environment with direct exposure to on-the-floor processes.
Insatiable curiosity and genuine drive to understand how things work and why each step matters.
Ability to articulate a process in detail and break complex, technical work into clear, teachable steps.
Extroverted and energized by people; builds trust across shop floor and classroom.
Extreme self-starter; takes ownership of ambiguous problems and drives programs forward.

Responsibilities

Facilitate instructor-led classroom, small-group, and hands-on technical training.
Teach employees to navigate company systems and access work instructions, drawings, and production records.
Teach documentation, traceability, and manufacturing process requirements including composites handling and curing.
Design and own a structured onboarding program with milestones and competencies.
Build long-term development pathways to reinforce and advance skills beyond onboarding.
Develop lesson plans, presentations, demonstrations, and full curricula grounded in adult-learning principles.
Use LMS, video and e-learning tools to create scalable courses and track effectiveness.
Define and track training-effectiveness metrics and provide data-driven inputs to improve processes.

Skills

Manufacturing processes

On-the-floor training

Instructional design

LMS familiarity

ERP/MES familiarity

Technical communication

Problem solving

Mentoring

Adaptability

Hands-on technician background

Education

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Mechanical/Aerospace engineering

Tools

LMS

ERP

MES

Document control systems

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Mental health services
Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

12 weeks paid maternity leave
4 weeks paid spouse leave
$20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

$10k/year towards trade school or college
Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
- Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
- 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
- $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Technical Trainer – Manufacturing & Composites

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

The Technical Trainer is responsible for building, delivering, and continuously improving the training and development program that equips manufacturing employees to succeed — from their first day of onboarding through the full arc of their career at Firefly.

This role is both a teacher and a program builder. As a teacher, the Technical Trainer delivers engaging, hands‑on instruction that helps employees navigate company and employee systems, understand manufacturing processes and documentation, and develop the technical skills needed to support production. As a program builder, this role designs a structured onboarding and development pathway that ramps new hires quickly, reinforces skills over time, and measures whether the training is actually working.

The trainer will learn Firefly's full composites manufacturing lifecycle — working closely with technicians, engineers, Quality, and other subject‑matter experts — and translate that knowledge into a scalable, technology‑enabled curriculum. A key part of this role is tracking training effectiveness and surfacing trends back to the engineering and operations teams to help shape processes that enable faster, more reliable onboarding.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Facilitate engaging instructor‑led classroom, small‑group, and hands‑on technical training, adapting delivery to different experience levels and learning styles.
Teach employees to navigate company and employee systems (timekeeping, learning/training, manufacturing documentation) and to access work instructions, drawings, specifications, and production records.
Teach proper documentation, traceability, and manufacturing process requirements, including composites instruction spanning material handling, tool prep, layup, bonding, vacuum bagging, curing, autoclave operations, trimming, finishing, and inspection.
Design and own a structured onboarding program that equips technicians and new hires from day one, with clear milestones, competencies, and qualification checkpoints.
Build career‑long development pathways that reinforce, advance, and re‑qualify skills well beyond initial onboarding.
Develop lesson plans, presentations, demonstrations, job aids, exercises, knowledge checks, and full curricula grounded in adult‑learning and instructional‑design principles.
Use technology and modern content tools (LMS, video, interactive e‑learning, digital job aids) to create impactful, scalable, and repeatable courses.
Define and track training‑effectiveness metrics (time‑to‑productivity, competency attainment, qualification pass rates, on‑floor performance) and analyze the data to identify trends and gaps.
Provide data‑driven inputs to engineering, manufacturing, and Quality to shape processes, documentation, and tooling that enable faster, more reliable onboarding.
Learn Firefly's full composites manufacturing lifecycle by partnering with technicians, engineers, Quality, and SMEs — spending time on the floor to reinforce training, maintain qualification records, and keep materials current as processes change.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, Aerospace, or related engineering discipline — or equivalent hands‑on manufacturing engineering experience.
3+ years of experience in a manufacturing, aerospace, or production engineering environment, with direct exposure to how processes, tooling, and hardware actually come together on the floor.
Insatiable curiosity — a genuine drive to understand how things work, take processes apart, and figure out why each step matters.
Demonstrated ability to articulate a process in detail — breaking complex, technical work into clear, logical, teachable steps that others can follow and repeat.
Extroverted and energized by people — enjoys spending time with technicians, engineers, and new hires, and builds trust quickly across the shop floor and the classroom.
Extreme self‑starter — takes ownership of ambiguous problems, builds structure where none exists, and drives programs forward without waiting to be directed.
Ability to quickly learn new software, employee systems, manufacturing processes, and technical concepts.
Ability to translate complex technical information into clear, practical instruction, and comfort presenting to groups.
Ability to read, understand, and explain technical procedures, work instructions, drawings, and manufacturing documentation.
Ability and willingness to learn Firefly's full composites manufacturing process from material preparation through completed hardware.
Comfortable working in both classroom and active manufacturing environments.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Experience as a Manufacturing/Process Engineer who developed work instructions, standard operating procedures, or process documentation that others were trained against.
Prior experience teaching, mentoring, or formally training technicians, peers, or new engineers.
Hands‑on background as a technician or in a skilled trade before moving into engineering — a builder who understands the work firsthand.
Familiarity with adult‑learning, instructional‑design, or Train‑the‑Trainer concepts (or eagerness to develop them).
Experience designing onboarding or ramp‑up programs and measuring their effectiveness (e.g., time‑to‑productivity, competency tracking).
Experience using data and analytics to identify trends and drive process or program improvement.
Experience authoring e‑learning / interactive content or administering an LMS.
Experience with ERP, MES, HRIS, document‑control, quality, or manufacturing systems.
Experience within aerospace, defense, automotive, aviation, or another high‑rigor technical environment.
Exposure to composites manufacturing processes, including layup, bonding, vacuum bagging, curing, autoclave operations, trimming, or finishing.

Primary Level Salary Range:

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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